Fig. 4: Link between turbulence and inter-layer velocity difference.
a Relationship of moored ΔU (black line) and moored Ubot (green line) with estimated turbulent dissipation rate ε. b Relationship of moored ΔU with moored Utop (red line) and moored Ubot (green line). ΔU, Ubot, and Utop have been defined in the caption of Fig. 3. For (a) and (b), the x-ranges are divided into small bins with a length of 0.01 m s−1. Lines represent the bin averages and shading indicate 95% confidence intervals. To reduce noise, the data used in (a) and (b) are first averaged every 12 hours, and only bins with more than 15 samples are presented. c Time series of monthly smoothed moored ΔU (black dashed line), moored Ubot (green line), and moored Utop (red line).
